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    Nations, approximately two-thirds of the world’s population will face a severe shortage of water by 2025(Shaw & Barry, 2014, pg. 131). Some countries have begun to prepare early by importing tankers of water from other countries. The State of Michigan; however, is not as concerned about the shortage due to having over 11,000 lakes including the Great Lakes. Due to the vast amount of water sources, Nestle has built a bottled water plant in Mecosta County, Michigan. The new plant has cost Nestle over 100

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    The Global Drinking Water Shortage Essay

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    The Global Drinking Water Shortage Table of Contents 2 Introduction 3 Year 2000 Opinions 3 Global Warming Issues 5 Technical Advances 6 Academic and Research Interviews 7 Scenarios… 9 Best Case isn’t Utopia 9 The Probably Outcome 11 The Worst Case 12 Conclusions 13 References or Bibliography 14 Introduction Seventy one percent of our planet is covered by water, so it would seem that we could never run out of drinking water. But of that seventy one percent, ninety

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    recent years, California’s water shortage has been an issue and in 2014 an alarming driest historical year has impacted the state in different ways. Because of the lack of rainfall and snow, California’s reservoirs are running insignificant water basins below their capacity. While water shortages are experienced slowly and throughout a length of time, the harshest impacts are noticeable in areas that produce California’s food where wells are used as resource for water in agriculture, and residential

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    Tanner Gohl Professor Karen Fitts English 101 11/15/16 Vertical Farming: The Solution to Water Shortage “If we do nothing, we shall all surely perish!” You have probably heard this phrase spoken by many a doomsayer and have thought nothing of it. Dismissing it as folly, you content yourself by believing that it is “Simply nonsense!” or more commonly, “It won’t happen during my generation.” However, this view, when contrasted with our current situation, is detrimental to all of us. While it is understandably

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    Professor Kimberly Sullivan English 101 20 August 2014 Argumentative Water Essay There is a water crisis which faces many parts of the world and it is a threat to survival of human beings since humans are primarily dependent on water. Shortage in drinking water is beginning to show its effects in first world countries, but is a current major problem facing lesser developed countries which have not taken drastic steps to harvest water and purify it to make it safe for human consumption. In developed

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    The world’s drinking water supply is one of these without concern, without attention, without preventative maintenance and reclamation and

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    With the fast advancement of enterprises, water asset shortage, populace development, contamination of surface and groundwater by releasing poisonous wastewater and ensuing maladies may raise the need of reusing and treatment of wastewater. The expelling of poisonous overwhelming metal particles from sewage, particularly in modern and mining waste effluents, has been generally examined as of late. Substantial metals wastewaters are specifically or in a roundabout way released into the earth progressively

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    If residents and corporations throughout the United States continue to frivolously waste water and refuse to make painless changes and upgrades around their homes, it will continue to increase in cost to people across the United States. For example, as a result of the water shortage crisis currently afflicting the southwestern United States, the city of San Diego, California, is currently constructing a desalination plant, located in Carlsbad, California. The idea of a desalination plant is to collect

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    times, water conservation is a complex task in Las Vegas, anticipating the multitude of factors that can affect the reliability of the community's water supply and investing in resources or projects that will provide a buffer against uncertainty. Subsequently, researchers from the Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography state that Lake Mead has a “50% chance of deteriorating to ‘dead pool’ by 2036”1 which is the level at which the reservoir's surface drops “beneath Las Vegas' lowest water intake”2

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    shelter, food, and water (McLeod). Of these, water stands out because although it covers most of Earth’s surface it is still in short supply and more researchers are beginning to notice a crisis may appear in the future. Most of the population in the developed world does not understand the daily struggle that people in less developed and developing countries go through in order to reach water. In countries like America, citizens simply have to turn on a faucet to receive fresh water, in countries like

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